he was top 50 from january-august2007 and july2009-may2010 and has 1 atp title, I guess injuries hurt him a bit.
Also he came from out of nowhere in 2006 as a 25 year old.
He could have been talented enough to be a top30 player.

11-07-2012 04:12 PM

Xenosys

Re: The dilemma of being too good for challengers and not good enough at the ATP leve

I'm having that problem myself at the moment. Been grinding away for years too. Top Spin 4 on Professional mode can be a real bitch.

11-07-2012 01:56 PM

Uncle Latso

Re: The dilemma of being too good for challengers and not good enough at the ATP leve

A player that makes a Wimbledon QF, Wimbledon R3, Olympics R3, AO R3 twice, is an ATP quality player. That record is better than several players ranked above Lu.

What's better, reaching the final of an ATP event or reaching a QF at Wimbledon?

11-05-2012 06:48 PM

Filo V.

Re: The dilemma of being too good for challengers and not good enough at the ATP leve

A player that makes a Wimbledon QF, Wimbledon R3, Olympics R3, AO R3 twice, is an ATP quality player. That record is better than several players ranked above Lu.

11-05-2012 06:27 PM

Wing Man Frank

Re: The dilemma of being too good for challengers and not good enough at the ATP leve

Having had the quickest of looks through the live rankings, I think I see 3 players above Lu in the rankings who have never played in an ATP final. Goffin (21), Tomic (20) and Soeda (28). There is a pretty good chance that both Goffin and Tomic will eventually reach a final so that makes it one player out of 62 that Lu is behind in career terms.

I'm sure I could list all the players who are behind him in the rankings who have made ATP finals, but I hope you get the point by now.

11-05-2012 06:18 PM

Wing Man Frank

Re: The dilemma of being too good for challengers and not good enough at the ATP leve

What constitutes an ATP player? A player who consistently plays ATP tournaments without achieving any kind of results?

11-05-2012 06:10 PM

Uncle Latso

Re: The dilemma of being too good for challengers and not good enough at the ATP leve

I also disagree rating Lu not an ATP player. He maybe isn't right now, but he's been one for some time.

Players i personally rate Too good for CH and not enough for ATP are - Darcis, Zemlja and Soeda.

The rest either have been ATP in the past (Muller, Hanescu, Ben.Becker etc.) or not too good for CH yet - Ito, Kuznetsov, Zopp.

11-05-2012 04:30 PM

green25814

Re: The dilemma of being too good for challengers and not good enough at the ATP leve